I heard a performance of this tonight by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under our new Chief Conductor Jaime Martin. Agreed in full that the symphony evokes that amazing film far better than the opera. Several audience members tonight told me they wanted to find and watch the film having heard this piece. I really loved the waltzes which immediately evoked the Schattenhaft movement of the Mahler Seventh.
I heard a performance of this tonight by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under our new Chief Conductor Jaime Martin. Agreed in full that the symphony evokes that amazing film far better than the opera. Several audience members tonight told me they wanted to find and watch the film having heard this piece. I really loved the waltzes which immediately evoked the Schattenhaft movement of the Mahler Seventh.